Who designed ORCA?

By Maggie Haberman

11/15/12 05:50 PM EST

One of the unanswered questions of the last two weeks is what company got the contract for ORCA, the Romney campaign software flop that crashed and never totally recovered on Election Day, leaving officials in the dark about what vote shares they were getting in specific counties.

I've asked several Mitt Romney officials but can't get a response. Some have said they can't find out, although the anger at political operative and deputy political director Dan Centinello, who did not respond to emails last week, has grown.

However, Romney digitial director Zac Moffatt said in an email that four firms, including the one he co-founded, Targeted Victory, didn't work on the project. The others are Rockfish, Oho and Romney Digital.

It may or may not be easy to tell from the final FEC report what firm or firms worked on the project. But given the negative attention surrounding it, it's hard to see how delaying answering questions will help.